How to format your references using the Global Food Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Food Security. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Pennisi, E., 2000. GENOMICS: Wellcome Trust Backs Genome Computation. Science 289, 525a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rhoten, D., Parker, A., 2004. Education. Risks and rewards of an interdisciplinary research path. Science 306, 2046.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nemoto, S., Fergusson, M.M., Finkel, T., 2004. Nutrient availability regulates SIRT1 through a forkhead-dependent pathway. Science 306, 2105–2108.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Smith, F.A., Boyer, A.G., Brown, J.H., Costa, D.P., Dayan, T., Ernest, S.K.M., Evans, A.R., Fortelius, M., Gittleman, J.L., Hamilton, M.J., Harding, L.E., Lintulaakso, K., Lyons, S.K., McCain, C., Okie, J.G., Saarinen, J.J., Sibly, R.M., Stephens, P.R., Theodor, J., Uhen, M.D., 2010. The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals. Science 330, 1216–1219.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Pouly, M., Kohlas, J., 2011. Generic Inference. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Streitz, N., Stephanidis, C. (Eds.), 2013. Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions: First International Conference, DAPI 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Delfino, M., Persico, D., 2011. Unfolding the Potential of ICT for SRL Development, in: Carneiro, R., Lefrere, P., Steffens, K., Underwood, J. (Eds.), Self-Regulated Learning in Technology Enhanced Learning Environments: A European Perspective. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 53–74.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Global Food Security.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2017. Mass Grave In Germany Reveals The Bloody Death Of 47 Soldiers [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mass-grave-in-germany-reveals-the-bloody-death-of-47-soldiers/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Federal Reserve Is Acting to Ensure Financial Institutions Are Fixing Systems, But Challenges Remain (No. AIMD-98-248). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Yendes, D.L., 2010. Remnants of Life (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Shear, M.D., 2017. Questions and Answers About the Ruling. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Pennisi, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Pennisi, 2000; Rhoten and Parker, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Rhoten and Parker, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Food Security
Abbreviation	Glob. Food Sec.
ISSN (print)	2211-9124
Scope	Food Science Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Ecology Safety Research